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You would get the true position of the receiver, IF enough satellites with
acceptable geometry and signal strength were in view. See:
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-- Richard Langley

On Wed, 2 May 2007, Robert Eno wrote:

>This is not an astro-navigation question but one which might interested some 
of the list members out there.
>
>A thought occurred to me over the weekend as I was tinkering with my new GPS
>receiver (Garmin 76S): If a person were in orbit around the earth and outside
>of the umbrella of the GPS satellites -- that is, outside of their sphere of
>orbit -- what position would one's GPS receiver yield?
>
>Robert
>>
>


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